YouTube for Schools lets schools access free educational YouTube videos while limiting access to other YouTube content. Students can learn from more than 400,000 educational videos, from well-known organizations like Stanford, PBS and TED, and from up-and-coming YouTube partners with millions of views, like Khan Academy, Steve Spangler Science and numberphile. Schools can also customize their YouTube for Schools experience, adding videos that are only viewable within their school network.
According to Wesch, "This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively."
From the National Council of Teachers of English Convention, 2012, in Las Vegas, many of the the nation's best language arts minds shared material from their presentations. Use the searchable program (given to you through Diigo as well), find the sessions you're interested in, and come back to this page to see if the session's materials are available.
Audacity, a free, open-source audio editing application, that allows users to record, edit, and mix narration and music. The program works well for students editing self-recorded audio clips.
This article provides a very simple method of food preservation that anyone can utilize, which is freezing. This addresses my research question regarding how to make food preservation manageable for anyone. Many people already freeze food so this method just utilizes an already familiar practice that can be applied to home-grown food as well.